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Friday, Apr 27, 2007

First declension with prepositions &c. MUSA

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Haec musa, amor musae, caesar honorem musae dat, contra musam, o musa, coram musa, hae musae, splendor musarum, caesar honores musis dat, juxta musas, o musae, sine musis.

You will find it much easier to learn the Latin declensions using the format I have given here, as each form of the declension is given in a context that makes sense.
For example, instead of just learning musa,musae,musae, musam,musa,musa, you will learn,haec musa "this song", amor musae, "love of a song", caesar honorem musae dat,"Caesar gives honour to a song", and so on. I expect that the information will get into your head more quickly this way, and on the way, you will reinforce a little syntax, as every sentence about caesar contains three cases - caesar, in the nominative, honorem in the accusative, and the next word, in this example musae, in the dative. this is why I have used the verb dat - to help you remember we are talking about the dative here.

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